Henry James

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Henry James - In the Cage

In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic...

Lee Ann Howlett 3 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Henry James - Ambassadors

Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that...

Nicholas Clifford 16 hours 46 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Altar of the Dead

A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events....

Dorlene Kaplan and 1 more 1 hour 32 minutes

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Family Life

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Henry James - What Maisie Knew

When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral...

Elizabeth Klett 8 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Death of the Lion

This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory,...

Jacquerie 1 hour 41 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Spoils of Poynton

The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda Vetch, when both of them find themselves guests in the tasteless house of...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Pupil

Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr....

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 52 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Sir Dominick Ferrand

«Levity» is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent,...

Nicholas Clifford 2 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Figure in the Carpet

The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admirs the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows him that he – and all other critics – have in fact missed the great point of...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Henry James - Jolly Corner

«The Jolly Corner,» published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to «The Turn of the Screw.» James’s protagonist, Spencer Brydon, is an American of 56, returned to New York after...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 35 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Aspern Papers

One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, but now dead, American poet. His attempts to secure them from the poet’s former...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 51 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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Henry James - Europeans

The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the...

Lee Ann Howlett 6 hours 37 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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